K&L Gates Triage: Emergency Preparedness and Response in Long Term Care - Part III
K&L Gates Triage: Emergency Preparedness and Response in Long Term Care - Part II
K&L Gates Triage: Emergency Preparedness and Response in Long Term Care
Is Your Health Care Facility Prepared for an Active Shooter?
Meet Your Deadlines: West Virginia AST Act Challenges
As a result of the novel Coronavirus pandemic, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently issued several pieces of guidance to help HIPAA covered entities and their business associates to best address how patient information...more
Federal health care privacy laws, most notably privacy and security rules under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), permit covered entities to disclose information concerning COVID-19...more
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the HIPAA Privacy Rule...more
In light of the Ebola outbreak and other events, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, released a bulletin to ensure HIPAA covered entities are aware of the ways in which patient...more
HHS Releases Bulletin Clarifying HIPAA Privacy Rule in Emergency Situations – In light of the recent Ebola outbreak, HHS released a bulletin on November 10, 2014 “to ensure that HIPAA covered entities and their...more